Fresh and Exciting

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Up until Valerian and the movie of a 1000 bores, this was the worst psychedelic sf movie ever. Based on the comic from France and starring the put upon Jane Fonda (who should be forced to watch it anytime she opens her mouth about anything), this is a really silly and at times, dull movie. Typical eurotrash. I'd rather watch The Fifth Element any day of the week. While it does have a few interesting designs here and there, it's mostly silly. Some like it, they can have it.

Boy oh boy, that Jane Fonda certainly has the X-factor! This film is really sixties-naff at the same time as being sixties-kitsch and sixties-sexy. I watched it all the time when I was a teenager and appreciated Kylie Minogue's pastiche of the opening striptease in her pop video for 'Put Yourself in My Place'. The film also gave the Eighties band 'Duran Duran' its name. No longer just a film, bit an icon of a short period of history when Anglo-Saxons overcame their fear of sex...

I've been a fan of this film for years, but just recently re-watched it - on Blu-Ray and a big screen. Outstanding! It's a visual treat.Yes, if looking just at the surface, it's campy to the point of being silly, but that is the point. Jane Fonda, Anita Pallenberg and Milo O'Shea are just perfect. They, and the movie, are over the top, but actually do a great job of capturing that ethereal late-60's vibe (I was there and remember).So find the Blu-Ray, a big high-def screen, and maybe a glass of your favorite elixir on the rocks, dim the lights, settle in, and let this cult classic psychedelic moving picture art just flow over you!

Imagine "Bring Your Son to Work Day" in the Star Trek writer's room. While the adults are on lunch break after a fruitful morning of pounding out stories, their 14 year-old sons decide to make some changes. Poof: "Barbarella."Jane Fonda stars as the titular heroine, some sort of intergalactic ambassador for Earth. She's given a mission by the President of Earth--who insists getting dressed is wholly unnecessary--to collect a man by the name of Durand Durand--sounds familiar--who has built some sort of superweapon. The plot isn't important.The entire conception of the film seems to have been, "how many strange, creative outfits can we get Jane Fonda to wear, and how many strange, creative ways can we get those outfits off?" Her clothes are ripped to shreds by everything from metal-mouthed, porcelain dolls to an army of agitated parrots. I can get behind weirdness, and this film has plenty of it. In fact, it's a visual Chinese buffet--in that there's a little bit of everything and it's dirty. However, as goofy and bizarre as the film gets, it's insufferably lifeless--easily the most boring film ever made to include the line, "De-crucify the angel or I'll melt your face!"While not being the complete and total camp-fest I was hoping for, there's still a lot of smirk-inducing material. The interior of Barbarella's ship looks like the groovy inside of an inside-out buffalo. The climax to the film is, well, just that. And there's a blind angel who has the unique honor of delivering the most mundane last line in film history.Even some of the intentional humor works, including--but not limited to--such as the fact that Barbarella, whenever faced with an alien language, always tries her native English first, then--for some inexplicable reason--French. "Barbarella" isn't bad enough to be good or bad enough to be bad; it's trapped in the cinematic purgatory of "is that the one with the thing?" It does have one of the great opening credit sequences, I must say.